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East Boynton, Georgia

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ringgold census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30736. The Survey maps it on the East Ridge quadrangle.

East Boynton within Catoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

564 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 564 fires within 5 miles of East Boynton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 995 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 72 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning288
Equipment and vehicle use73
Arson/incendiarism72
Misuse of fire by a minor40
Smoking36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony16
Natural12
Railroad operations and maintenance4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CATOOSA-008
8 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CATOOSA-005
8 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CATOOSA-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of East Boynton: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnnamedIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Graysville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hales QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Catoosa County

Storms near this place

8 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Boynton in 8 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Boynton$8,000The Catoosa County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down on power lines along Smoketree Circle near Boynton.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Boynton$5,000The Catoosa County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down from around Boynton Drive at Baggett Road to around Highway 151 and Mt Pisgah Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Boynton$2,000Tree across power lines at Akins Rd and Maple Way.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Boynton$1,000Tree in the roadway on the 100 block of Holcomb Rd.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEast Boynton$750The Catoosa County Sheriff's office reported a few trees down west of Ringgold.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Boynton-Tree down across road near intersection of Bagget Rd and Boynton Rd.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Boynton-Report of tree down at intersection of Boynton Dr and Bookout Rd.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindEast Boynton-Couple of trees down on Poplar Springs St and near the intersection of Baggett Rd and John Dr.

Every storm recorded in Catoosa County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ellie Spring0.3 miles28
Scenic Hills0.7 miles28
Boynton1.0 miles28
Old Mill Trace1.4 miles28
Love Hill1.5 miles28
Dietz2.1 miles28
Blevins Acre2.1 miles28
Indian Springs2.3 miles28

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122561814The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331615. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.